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p. 446 Guzman of Salamanca. A Guzman was a common term of abuse. Salamanca had an unsavoury reputation owing to the fictions of Titus Gates. cf. p. 446 Signum Mallis. This curious phrase, which is both distorted cant and canine, would appear to mean 'your rogue's phiz'. p. 446 Friskin. 'A gay lively person. Halliwell. p. 446 Jack of Lent.
I licked him and bare him no mallis: but of corse I dismist the imperent scoundrill from my suvvis, apinting Adolphus, my page, to his post of confidenshle Valley. "Mary Hann and her young and lovely Mrs. kep paying me continyoul visits during my retiremint.
Nobody seemed to have any tents when they left the station for the districts, nor to take any bedding when they went on tour or up-country. A queer, foreign land. But Monksmead was a most magnificent "bungalow" standing in a truly beautiful "compound" wherein the very bhistis and mallis were European and appeared to be second-class sahibs.
I am displeas'd at your Grey-Eyes, and black Eye-brows, and Beard; I never knew a Man with those Signs, true to his Mistress or his Friend. And I wou'd sooner wed that Scoundrel Scaramouch, that very civil Pimp, that mere pair of chymical Bellows that blow the Doctor's projecting Fires, that Deputy-urinal Shaker, that very Guzman of Salamanca. than a Fellow of your infallible Signum Mallis. Har.
But I bare no mallis infamation is infamation, and it doesn't matter where the infamy comes from; and whether the Dairy be from that distinguished pen to which it is ornarily attributed whether, I say, it comes from a lady of honor to the late quean, or a scullion to that diffunct majisty, no matter: all we ask is nollidge; never mind how we have it.
The race of the ancient earls of Orkney, descendants of Jarl Einar-Torf, becoming extinct, Magnus Smak, king of Norway, nominated, about 1343, Erngisel Sunason Bot, a Swedish nobleman, to be Jarl or Earl of Orkney. In 1357 Malic Conda, or Mallis Sperre, claimed the earldom. Afterwards, in 1369, Henry Sinclair put in his claim, and was nominated earl in 1370, by King Hakon.
Ever after the night at Ashley's, they were as tender as two tuttle-doves which fully accounts for the axdent what happened to me, in being kicked out of the room: and in course I bore no mallis. I don't know whether Miss Betsy still fancied that my master was in love with her, but she loved muffings and tea, and kem down to his parlor as much as ever. Now comes the sing'lar part of my history.
He'd got to that pich that he didn't mind injaries they were all fair play to him he gave 'em, and reseav'd them, without a thought of mallis. If he wanted to injer his son, it was to benefick himself. And how was this to be done? By getting the hairiss to himself, to be sure. The Honrabble Mr.
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